Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'silvercity'
November 20, 2007
How does a newly-opened shopping complex bring in shoppers? Hold a British-themed sale, featuring specials on fine UK products like Orange Julius and Gordon Lightfoot records! The Yonge-Eglinton Centre opened in October 1973 with Dominion and Horizon as its anchors. The short-lived Horizon chain was an attempt by Eaton's to enter the crowded discount department store field. This location was converted to an Eaton's store when the company pulled the plug on Horizon in......
Continue Reading "Vintage Toronto Ads: British Days at Yonge and Eglinton"April 5, 2007
It features our busiest subway station, it's got one of the most trafficked intersections in Toronto, and it's the psychological split between uptown and downtown. Despite such importance and notoriety, Yonge and Bloor has remained inexplicably dingy and architecturally bland. Now, a Kazakhstani development firm and local architect Roy Varacalli want to change all of that with a tower which, at eighty storeys, would be the tallest residential building in Canada (in terms of floors).......
Continue Reading "Transforming Yonge & Bloor"